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Canonical's Revenues Grow, But Not Yet Profitable

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From the get-go, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu - Canonical - has backed Ubuntu with Mark Shuttleworth's money. The big question has always been if Canonical is actually making any money. We have a rather clear and definitive answer to that one now.

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Still Young

by motang on Tue 28th Oct 2008 02:07 UTC

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2008-03-27

Well they are still young compared to other big Tech companies, so this expected. In a few more years this should change.

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RE: Still Young

by TusharG on Tue 28th Oct 2008 02:27 in reply to "Still Young"

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2005-07-06

Well its not only about how old they are but who's their main clients! Home users dont pay much as against companies with server editions do pay lot. Look at Redhat! I wont be surprise, if we see they focusing now on server software in coming years.

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RE[2]: Still Young

by stabbyjones on Tue 28th Oct 2008 03:28 in reply to "RE: Still Young"

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2008-04-15

as shuttleworth said they'll be focusing on services.

you want to use red hat you pay for support services. there's nothing stopping you putting centOS on but you don't get any help.

i imagine that's exactly what ubuntu will be. free while you pay for support costs.

business will pay for support where users won't.

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